Surrey UK, not Surrey BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey

All of these Surrey NanoSystems videos about Vantablack are quite interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcstydRR1-x4hLyFcqigu4w/videos

(they dip it in water and liquid nitrogen too)

Yes, *promote the boys from Surrey

Thank You, UP!
In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
*promote

surrey is a long way to go for a sandwich. i'd go to main and hastings for one though.

Hurray! Canada gets rid of the penny!

- We also got rid of 19,200 jobs! (1)
- Increased the retirement age to 67 years old for eligibility to receive pensioners. (2)
- Slashed funding to the elections Canada (on the eve of investigations into election fraud!) /Source.
- Scaled back of youth programs including the elimination of the Katimavik work exchange program.
- The news organization most capable of reporting on government actions and fraud is severely cut. (3)

And, it spite of all the cuts due to overspending, we're still committed to purchasing several F-35 JSF "White Elephants" from war profiteers, Lockheed Martin. Link.
Canadians taxpayers are still paying 31 Billion to serve the INTEREST on outstanding debt to private banks. (4)
Universities continue to be so underfunded that 200,000 students protested in the streets of Montreal last month. (5)


(1) This would be equivalent of Obama suddenly eliminating about 180,000 public servant jobs in the United States if scaled for population.
(2) Except for politicians, who can still begin to receive their pension as early as 55 until after the next election. info!
(3) The CBC takes budget nosedive on the chin. Link.
(4) And who benefits from that interest payment? Surely not the same people who contribute to political campaigns!! Harper unwilling to actually cut spending.
(5) http://videosift.com/video/Montreal-Students-Protest-Timelapse-March-22-2012

But, hey, at least we got rid of the penny!!
Focus on the shiny coin!

Was working in North Van during this silly Cotillion. Ran into a lot of people that had gotten out of there safely and was kept in the loop throughout the night. Just insane. Saw the black smoke clouds from across the water.

I interact with a lot of people in my job, so many of them over the last few weeks all predicted this. They told me they were all 100% positive that win (yes win) or lose there would be riots. It is sad when so many people that live in this city can call this weeks away.

I would like elaborate about the Surrey comment. This is definitely a symptom of one of the problems. I do not believe people that physically live in downtown or close by would partake in this. It costs a fucking arm and a leg to live here, and destroying things isn't high on our list of things to do in our home. I'm sure some of the people were drunken idiots that lived here, but I believe the majority of these people that went completely off are from out of town. In the end I guess none of that really matters.

What made things worse were the spectators. People sticking around and watching, and those cheering on the human sh*tpiles while they were going nuts. Had the majority of people gotten the F out of downtown once it started like they should have, the effects would have been less felt no doubt in my mind. It pains me to say it, but I feel the people that stuck around just to watch and laugh are just as responsible as those causing physical damage.

srsly, when are we going to build that wall around surrey.

Hey watch it now, don't lump me in with the yahoos from Surrey, I'm in Fort Langley and have always advocated a fence around Surrey. Besides you can't keep me out I'm a natural born citizen and have the long form birth certificate to prove it.

Seriously though what amazes me is that the assholes looting and burning cars not only didn't care about cameras, they seemed proud of their accomplishments and were mugging for the cameras. Hopefully most will regret their stupidity either through the courts, public opinion and not a few will likely find their employers unimpressed. That is if they have jobs which is probably doubtful for many.

>> ^Zifnab:

My mother is very proud, she called me after the game to check. I only lit a few cars on fire a little...
Seriously though, I watched the game at a friends place and then went home and watched the riot on TV. Stupid idiots, makes me want to puke to see drunken assholes acting like this.>> ^therealblankman:
I'm pretty sure that the little bastard in the thumbnail is @Zifnab. Dude, why do you misbehave so? Is your mother proud?



I watched the last 2 periods from the CBC plaza! Walked home, turned on the TV and saw 2 cop cars on fire pretty much next to where I had been standing. We really ought to put up a fence around Surrey and the Fraser Valley to keep these yahoos out of our beautiful city.

As featured in May 2011 Wired Magazine

He's calling out this guy: http://videosift.com/video/Mr-B-the-Chap-Hop-sensation-Straight-Outta-Surrey

This guy is Nabil Shaban - Writer, Director, Actor and Film maker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil_Shaban
http://uk.geocities.com/jinghiz53/

Nabil Shaban was born in 1953 in Amman, Jordan and arrived in England when he was three for treatment for his osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle-bone disease). In 1980, he and Richard Tomlinson founded Graeae (pronounced Grey Eye), a professional theatre company of disabled performers.

A writer and performer with many film and television credits, he is probably best known to television viewers for his role as ruthless intergalactic businessman Sil in the Doctor Who stories 'Vengeance on Varos' and 'Trial of a Timelord' (BBC, 1985 and 1986).

Nabil Shaban is a political actor and has worked in Theatre Workshop plays about Palestine, and about the State murder of Northern Ireland lawyer, Rosemary Nelson. He also acted and collaborated in Ghazi Hussein’s 'One Hour Before Sun Rise' in 2006, about the journey of a young poet named Moneer and his torture in a Syrian prison.

Shaban, who has a degree in Psychology and Philosophy, was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1997 from the University of Surrey for the achievements of his career and his work to change public perceptions of disabled people.
http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/artsinscotland/drama/features/archive/profilenabilshaban.aspx

>> ^EDD:
Now to only find some kind of evolutionary advantage to neckties...


You got me curious. I did a little searching to see if ties ever had any function besides being a fashion item. I thought maybe they used to be used to wipe sweat off your face or blow your nose or something, but no, it pretty much started out as a fashion piece going back to ancient Egypt as a way to show ones social status.

I found some other interesting things about ties that I didn't know, like wearing ties can be hazardous to your health.

Doctors in British hospitals are not allowed to wear ties when seeing patients because they are a good place for bacteria to cling to and cause cross contamination of patients. Ties aren't washed as often, so they're like little hotels for bacteria.

As a spokesperson for the British Department of Health pointed out, however, ties perform no useful function and their colonies of dangerous bacteria may spread infections within a hospital. [link]



A boy spent three days in hospital after his school tie was tightly pulled round his neck in a prank called the 'peanut'.

The 13-year-old student was stretchered away and taken to a specialist spinal injuries unit after he was set upon as a joke at Oxted County School in Surrey.

The victim, who is currently recovering at home after being treated at East Surrey Hospital, has been left so traumatised that he's too frightened to wear a tie in fear that the prank will happen again.

...The prank involves yanking a tie downwards so the knot tightens to the size of a peanut. [link]


I thought this was kind of funny from the Wikipedia article: Neckties are viewed by various sub and counter culture movements as being a symbol of submission and slavery (ie having a symbolic chain around ones neck) to the corrupt elite of society, as a "wage-slave". [link]

I just don't like wearing ties because they are uncomfortable, serve no purpose and get in the way.

In reply to this comment by bareboards:
> I went back and responded to your response, not really knowing what the heck this profile thing is all about.
i'll generally do the same thing. reply to the thread, and then 'ping' their homepage if i said anything worth bothering about.

> I still have my Power Point from 5 months ago. Can I give it to you?
nope. here's the skinny on the points, used for certain *invoke options.

> Or is that like bringing coals to Newcastle?
yay for britishisms. me mum's from surrey.

the automaton line in your reply, reminded me of this favorite, from a year ago:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Newt-Gingrich-on-the-US-Presidential-process-Aug-2007

so, thanks again!

I live in Surrey so not right in Vancouver. Let me know when you are coming out and we might be able to work something out though, it would be fun. We could see if any of the other Vancouver/BC sifters were interested as well. I think fissionchips is in Vancouver (at least according to the Sift Map). Maybe Fedquip would make a trek over to the mainland from the island.

I tossed your Sloan vid's some love as well

In reply to this comment by Krupo:
I hate it when those things are on fire. Yay playlists.

BTW, are you Vancouver proper or somewhere in the periphery? I have a West Coast vacation mega-fun-roadtrip coming up next month. We could do a siftup if you're somewhere near downtown.